My PC stopped working about 3 months ago and I had no idea why. The screen just went black and my PC shutdown while I was playing Overwatch and then wouldn't turn back on at all (no fans trying to start or anything). So I took it to a local PC repair person to see what the problem was and to hopefully fix it. But when I went back to find out what the problem was he said that my problem was my graphics card (GTX 970 FTW) made my PC not turn on for some reason but my PC worked fine without it plugged in. He did say that when it was plugged in the graphics card would get very hot near where the SLI slot is and he also said not to use the same power cable connected to the graphics card just in case it was that which made my graphics card break.
So I'm wondering do I need to do any checks on my PC to make sure it is ok and wont break my new (RTX 2070 SUPER) that I'm going to install?
Specs when PC broke:-
Graphics - GTX 970 FTW
Motherboard - Z170 PRO gaming
Power supply - EVGA 1000w supernova G2
Ram - 16gb
CPU - I5 6600K
OS - Windows 10
Side notes - I have not overclocked the CPU or Graphics card ever.
- GTX 970 FTW (Broken) - Intel integrated graphics (Currently using) - RTX 2070 SUPER (What i want to install)
So I'm wondering do I need to do any checks on my PC to make sure it is ok and wont break my new (RTX 2070 SUPER) that I'm going to install?
Specs when PC broke:-
Graphics - GTX 970 FTW
Motherboard - Z170 PRO gaming
Power supply - EVGA 1000w supernova G2
Ram - 16gb
CPU - I5 6600K
OS - Windows 10
Side notes - I have not overclocked the CPU or Graphics card ever.
- GTX 970 FTW (Broken) - Intel integrated graphics (Currently using) - RTX 2070 SUPER (What i want to install)